Job description
Location: Chippenham / Bristol
Benefits include:
Salary: £28,000-£36,000, including potential project completion
bonus.
Additional development budget of up to £2,000 (training courses, further
studies etc.).
Exciting opportunity to be the bridge between two facilities on the cutting
edge of composites research and development.
Project Aim: To transfer and embed Tailored Fibre Placement Technology
within CTS that will enable the design, development and manufacture of
highly optimised lightweight higher performing composite components and
structures.
Carbon ThreeSixty (CTS) is a turnkey provider for the design, development, and manufacture of highly challenging, advanced composite structures. The utilisation of Tailored Fibre Placement Technology (TFP) is a novel approach that CTS are keen to adopt to develop their core product portfolio. TFP has the potential to significantly accelerate CTS’s product development process, but the technology is still highly novel. So far, CTS’s utilisation of TFP has been simple engineering experience-based trials.
CTS have merely scratched the surface of what could be possible with using TFP. Advantages include highly optimised fibre paths and orientation leading to a more optimised light-weight composite products, a repeatable and automated process, the generation of lighter, higher performing composite components and structures and reduced material waste during manufacture.
NCC are the UK’s leading experts in TFP analysis. This KTP will focus on developing a first principles analysis method/tool to design and analyse TFP, grounded with comparative validation testing.
TFP is an innovative process allowing greater level of optimisation vs traditional composite. To unlock this innovation the structural optimisation process developed in an academic environment implements in a real-world environment. This will build confidence in CTS’s onward ability to design “in TFP”.
Project description
Project Aim: To transfer and embed Tailored Fibre Placement Technology within CTS that will enable the design, development and manufacture of highly optimised lightweight higher performing composite components and structures.
NCC are the UK’s leading experts in TFP analysis. This KTP will focus on developing a first principles analysis method/tool to design and analyse TFP, grounded with comparative validation testing.
TFP is an innovative process allowing greater level of optimisation vs traditional composite. To unlock this innovation the structural optimisation process developed in an academic environment implements in a real-world environment. This will build confidence in CTS’s onward ability to design “in TFP”.
About the business
Carbon ThreeSixty (CTS) is a turnkey provider for the design, development, and manufacture of highly challenging, advanced composite structures. The utilisation of Tailored Fibre Placement Technology (TFP) is a novel approach that CTS are keen to adopt to develop their core product portfolio. TFP has the potential to significantly accelerate CTS’s product development process, but the technology is still highly novel. So far, CTS’s utilisation of TFP has been simple engineering experience-based trials. CTS have merely scratched the surface of what could be possible with using TFP. Advantages include highly optimised fibre paths and orientation leading to a more optimised light-weight composite products, a repeatable and automated process, the generation of lighter, higher performing composite components and structures and reduced material waste during manufacture.
Engineering, Composites, Design, Manufacture
Research and Development
Qualifications - Is desired that the KTP associate will have a minimum of a 2:1 degree in a relevant field; applications from Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, or another relevant topic will be considered. A masters or higher level would be preferable, with evidence of success in a relevant longer, self-driven project or thesis, that has taken place in either an RTO or in a research-driven commercial setting.
18 April 2023
11 June 2023
11 June 2023
13549
Location: Chippenham / Bristol
Benefits include:
Salary: £28,000-£36,000, including potential project completion bonus.
Additional development budget of up to £2,000 (training courses, further studies etc.).
Exciting opportunity to be the bridge between two facilities on the cutting edge of composites research and development.
Project Aim: To transfer and embed Tailored Fibre Placement Technology within CTS that will enable the design, development and manufacture of highly optimised lightweight higher performing composite components and structures.
Carbon ThreeSixty (CTS) is a turnkey provider for the design, development, and manufacture of highly challenging, advanced composite structures. The utilisation of Tailored Fibre Placement Technology (TFP) is a novel approach that CTS are keen to adopt to develop their core product portfolio. TFP has the potential to significantly accelerate CTS’s product development process, but the technology is still highly novel. So far, CTS’s utilisation of TFP has been simple engineering experience-based trials.
CTS have merely scratched the surface of what could be possible with using TFP. Advantages include highly optimised fibre paths and orientation leading to a more optimised light-weight composite products, a repeatable and automated process, the generation of lighter, higher performing composite components and structures and reduced material waste during manufacture.
NCC are the UK’s leading experts in TFP analysis. This KTP will focus on developing a first principles analysis method/tool to design and analyse TFP, grounded with comparative validation testing.
TFP is an innovative process allowing greater level of optimisation vs traditional composite. To unlock this innovation the structural optimisation process developed in an academic environment implements in a real-world environment. This will build confidence in CTS’s onward ability to design “in TFP”.